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Chemical Composition of Sea Fog Water Along the South China Sea |
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| Authors: | Yanyu Yue Shengjie Niu Lijuan Zhao Yu Zhang Feng Xu |
| Institution: | 1. Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster of Ministry of Education, School of Atmospheric Physics, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST), 210044, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China 2. Zhanjiang Meteorological Bureau, 524001, Zhanjiang, People’s Republic of China 3. Guangdong Ocean University, 524009, Zhanjiang, People’s Republic of China |
| Abstract: | The chemical and microphysical properties of sea fog were measured during a field experiment on Donghai Island, Zhanjiang of China from March 15 to April 18, 2010. The average pH and electrical conductivity (EC) value of the six sea fog cases during the experiment was 5.2 and 1,884?μS/cm. The observed total ion concentration of sea fog was four orders of magnitude higher than those in the North Pacific and other sea areas of China. The dominant anion and cation in all sea fog water samples were Cl? and Na+, respectively. From backward trajectory analysis and ion loading computation, it can be concluded that the ions in the samples were transported either from pollutants in distant industrial cities or from local ion deposition processes. The concentration of Ca2+ in the sea fog water samples in Case 2 suggested that a dust storm in the Inner Mongolia, a northern region of China several thousand kilometers away, could reach the South China Sea. The data also showed that the sea fog droplet spectrum over the South China Sea is unimodal. Through relationship analysis, it is illustrated that the evolution of microphysics (such as droplet concentration, diameter, and liquid water content) during fog process could affect the chemical properties of sea fog. |
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